MARCH 6

Time keeps on slipping into the future. That song is in my head this morning as I think of B. Time just keeps going faster and faster it seems when I think of him and how everyday he just keeps getting bigger and bigger and smarter and smarter. The smarter I can deal with, the bigger I can't. One day he isn't going to insist on sitting on me to watch Curious George or that I lay in bed with him at night to fall asleep.

• Yesterday I dropped him off at a friends house for a play date while I went to a class for work. He truly didn't care that I left him. It was great to know hoe comfortable he feels with the family but a little sad that he didn't care of I was there or not. When I picked him up he was excited to see me, but mostly to show me a toy train he wanted to bring home and "borrow".

• Lately I have been trying to have him do little chores around the house. Well one little chore, feeding the cat. He does pretty well and the dog really thinks he does a great job, with the food he feeds her from the floor. Lately though when I have been asking him to feed the cat, he tells me "You do". Not exactly what I want to hear from a 2 1/2 year old but would expect from a 16 year old. I have tried a new tactic in having him help me. I give him an incentive, not a bribe, an incentive. It started off with a star drawn on his hand and has now evolved into either a race car or space ship, which sometimes really looks like either one. It is fun though. He has even started to insist on drawing on me. I really like his fire trucks.

• One of his favorite things to help with me, other than the dishes, is laundry. He isn't that great of a helper, but does enjoy being on the bed while I fold laundry. He is good at matching socks though, and of course throwing the piles of folded clothes onto the floor. One day while folding clothes I started to sing a song about matching songs. He got off the bed and ran down the hall toward Daddy all while yelling "Don't like that song". You can't please all your fans all the time.

• Driving home lately he has been more aware of what the other cars around us are doing. He has always looked at the other cars, and of course trucks, but now it seems like he is looking at them and how they affect us. The other day while driving home I was a bit frustrated at how slow people were going for no apparent reason and said "Come on people" he then asked what "they" were doing and I said going to slow. A few minutes later he yelled "Go people on the line". 

• The other weekend he watched racing at two different time, once with Papa and another time with his Uncle B and he really seemed to enjoy it, especially the crashing part. He now tells me to go fast like a race car while driving and then adds "Now crash!" I've tried explaining that we can't crash that it would hurt us and our car, but he still keeps on asking. He is persistent.